• Blind Men and Elephant 盲人と象、達磨 (above); Ichikawa Ebizō V 五代目市川海老蔵 as Daruma (below) from the series <i>Meiga rokumai byobu</i> (Screen with the six branches of famous painting - 名画六枚屏風) - one panel of a triptych
Blind Men and Elephant 盲人と象、達磨 (above); Ichikawa Ebizō V 五代目市川海老蔵 as Daruma (below) from the series <i>Meiga rokumai byobu</i> (Screen with the six branches of famous painting - 名画六枚屏風) - one panel of a triptych
Blind Men and Elephant 盲人と象、達磨 (above); Ichikawa Ebizō V 五代目市川海老蔵 as Daruma (below) from the series <i>Meiga rokumai byobu</i> (Screen with the six branches of famous painting - 名画六枚屏風) - one panel of a triptych
Blind Men and Elephant 盲人と象、達磨 (above); Ichikawa Ebizō V 五代目市川海老蔵 as Daruma (below) from the series <i>Meiga rokumai byobu</i> (Screen with the six branches of famous painting - 名画六枚屏風) - one panel of a triptych
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川国芳) (artist 01/01/1797 – 04/14/1861)

Blind Men and Elephant 盲人と象、達磨 (above); Ichikawa Ebizō V 五代目市川海老蔵 as Daruma (below) from the series Meiga rokumai byobu (Screen with the six branches of famous painting - 名画六枚屏風) - one panel of a triptych

Print

1847 – 1852
9.75" x 14.5" Japanese woodblock pirnt
Signature: Ichi Kuniyoshi (above), Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi (below)
Censors' seals: Mera, Murata 米良, 村田
MFA Boston
British Museum - all three panels
Bibliothèque nationale de France - #24 in an album Each panel has different signatures. The one with the title cartouche also has the publisher's seal: Ibaya Senzaburō. The curatorial files at the British Museum say: "The kabuki actors Ichikawa Danjuro VIII and Bando Shuka (right), Ichikawa Danjuro VII (centre), and Sawamura Sojuro V, Ichihawa Kuzo, and Onoe Baiko (left)."

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Illustrated in black and white in 'The blind as metaphorical subjects in the pictorial arts of Japan' by Helmut Wilmes in Andon 71, May, 2002, fig. 4, p. 34.